LOS ANGELES  Fuming for two months in a jail cell here, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has had plenty of time to reconsider the wisdom of making Innocence of Muslims, his crude YouTube movie trailer depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a bloodthirsty, philandering thug.

Does Mr. Nakoula now regret the footage? After all, it fueled deadly protests across the Islamic world and led the unlikely filmmaker to his own arrest for violating his supervised release on a fraud conviction.

Not at all. In his first public comments since his incarceration soon after the video gained international attention in September, Mr. Nakoula told The New York Times that he would go to great lengths to convey what he called the actual truth about Muhammad. I thought, before I wrote this script, he said, that I should burn myself in a public square to let the American people and the people of the world know this message that I believe in.

In explaining his reasons for the film, Mr. Nakoula, 55, a Coptic Christian born in Egypt, cited the 2009 massacre at Fort Hood, Tex., as a prime example of the violence committed under the sign of Allah. His anger seemed so intense over the years that even from a federal prison in 2010, he followed the protests against the building of an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero in New York as he continued to work on his movie script.

Until now, only the barest details were known about the making of the film that inspired international outrage. Initial reports made it seem as if the film had been thrown together in about a year.

If his film instigated ANY violence then certainly “Zero Dark Thirty” MUST be shut down immediately! Just think of the worldwide outage that will happen when America proudly displays on film the murder of one of Islam’s superheroes.

Our press demonizes a person who points out the inconsistencies of Islamic fundamentalism as hateful, but promotes anti-Israeli militant activity and decapitation of Christians who simply share their knowledge of God with others.

Reads as though the worldly press tends to be more demonically influenced than those they observe.

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posted on 11/26/2012 8:11:26 AM PST
by Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)

There are many things in this world that I dislike, despise and have a wish to have removed, But unlike the irrational and all to common response of isalamic peoples I ague my case and make attemtps to educate or sway by reason not blood shed. The islamic nations that support an and encourage this behavior would be well served to always hope that the peoples of the West continue to act as I do, and not as they do.

Does Mr. Nakoula now regret the footage? After all, it fueled deadly protests across the Islamic world and led the unlikely filmmaker to his own arrest for violating his supervised release on a fraud conviction.

GAH! Even when Obama ADMITTING IT WAS NOT THE MOVIE, the NY Slimes still cannot stop pushing that lie.

Idiots, the lot of them!

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posted on 11/26/2012 8:22:30 AM PST
by autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)

“it fueled deadly protests”
A sneaky way of saying that the film CAUSED the deaths.
Normal people know what the word CAUSE means. For the left, there is no such thing as a cause and effect relationship, unless it’s something they can use against a Republican.

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posted on 11/26/2012 8:37:27 AM PST
by I want the USA back
(Liberalism comes from an incurable mental illness.)

The British foreign office and its clone, the American state Department have always been pro-Arab. Its those dirty Jews, you know. /s. Despite the Balfour Declaration, the Mandate administration sought to prevent Jewish immigration into Palestiine, even as Arabs flooded into the Mandate from every direction.

"His anger seemed so intense over the years that even from a federal prison in 2010, he followed the protests against the building of an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero in New York as he continued to work on his movie script. "

Imagine that! Anger SO INTENSE that he actually FOLLOWED the protests against the 9-11 mosque!

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posted on 11/26/2012 8:46:41 AM PST
by cookcounty
("For the first time in my adult life I am not proud of my country.")

I’m somewhat surprised to see this article in the Times. I’m glad the guy is at least being allowed interviews while serving his trumped-up First Amendment-violating prison sentence.

I initially thought he had been put in place by the Obama regime, since the original video was about the activities of the “Terrorist George” or the “Terrorist B” (B for Bush, presumably), both of which are forms used by the Muslims in reference to GW Bush. In addition, there were questionable things about his financial background (not just the fraud charges) and the people or groups with whom he seems to have had some involvement; at the same time, he may not have known who their actual identity.

But if this article is true, then maybe he really was just trying to produce a video telling the truth about Mohammed.

It’s very obvious in any case that the Federal Government has been watching him for some time and knew exactly how to use him and his video.

I wonder how long they had the “offensive video” story backed up.

Incidentally, to add another layer to the conspiracy theory, Jill Kelley was apparently the person who got the generals involved in pressuring Terry Jones and also got them and local government and law enforcement to dissuade a radio jock named Bubba the Love Sponge from deep-fat frying a Koran.

As Mark Steyn said, Jill Kelley for Secretary of State, because she seems to be the international power broker - on the side of the Muslims (she’s an Arabic speaker, theoretically Maronite, but Maronites are very dhimmified).

It always struck me as completely disproportionate and wierd that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff would call a small town, independent fundamentalist church preacher in Gainesville, Florida, and make it sound like the preacher was causing an international incident with national security considerations if he didn’t give up his First Amendment rights and not show the video.

I notice that most people have forgotten about this incident, because apparently the stunt looked a little ridiculous even to the press so the administration has airbrushed it out of the narrative.

I think you really can trace a very complicated web out from Nakoulah. He and Terry Jones were somewhat marginal, quasi-flaky people who would be easy to ridicule and discredit and who didn’t have any important backers. Thus they were perfect fall guys whenever the Obama regime wanted to use them.

I find it pretty interesting that this guy, who admittedly is hardly an upright citizen, gets a year in jail for a probation violation that involves no more than making a movie and posting a trailer on YouTube. He may have violated a strict interpretation of his probation terms, but he did not commit another crime (except in the eyes of Hillary and the Mufti-in-Chief).

I constantly hear the wailing and moaning about the lack of jail space, about how dangerous criminals are released because there's nowhere to put them. If that's the case, why is this guy still in jail? Unless the Mufti wants to send a signal to his Muslim buddies that on his watch Sharia will be enforced.

His anger seemed so intense over the years blah blah blah. Anger = bad, killing Americans = non-issue. Sure NYT. Is there any reason other than Satanic blindness that people can buy into this line of BS?

I don’t think they will fuss too much about Bin Ladin. They don’t show too many movies in that part of the world.

I know that Saudi Arabia has no movie theaters and their internet is heavily censored. The same may be true of the anal retentive islamic countries. They may not know the movie is out for a few months yet.

Isn't the NY Times the paper whose deceitful article on the Koran-in-toilet fueled mayhem and murder in the Islamic world?

How about the abu Ghraibh reporting? A lot of riots, destruction and deaths attributable to that, many of the dead westerners as well as the usual muslim-on-muslim violence, and to make sure more got killed, the press reported it every day for months.

9/11 in Libya had nothing to do with the video, but, the film did inspire international outrage. Especially, in Egypt, but also around the world.

Yes, people are idiots for getting upset and protesting a film, but you just cant pretend the protests never happened.

I think you are confused. No one pretends that the idiots do not riot -we simply give the riots no legitimacy. There is NO excuse to perpetrate such evil as that which the Islamists do in the name of their perverted religion.

Yankee Reb, we live in a world of fiction which the Nazis
and Communists, Alice in Wonderland (”whatever I say three times is true”) and the great George Orwell could only dream about. The objective truth about ANYTHING has receded into the mists deep within the forest, and gets harder and harder to locate, and the world is full of even MORE people who don’t have the tools or inclination to venture into the forest.The reason the NYT continues to push the lie of the video is clear to me—they are pushing the same lie they helped “validate” 10 weeks ago precisely BECAUSE the Administration has moved past it.In a sense the Old Gray Lady
considers herself to have more “face” to lose even than the Administration if she can’t fess us to the “changing realities” of this Bemghazi affair.

Yankee Reb, we live in a world of fiction which the Nazis
and Communists, Alice in Wonderland (”whatever I say three times is true”) and the great George Orwell could only dream about. The objective truth about ANYTHING has receded into the mists deep within the forest, and gets harder and harder to locate, and the world is full of even MORE people who don’t have the tools or inclination to venture into the forest.The reason the NYT continues to push the lie of the video is clear to me—they are pushing the same lie they helped “validate” 10 weeks ago precisely BECAUSE the Administration has moved past it.In a sense the Old Gray Lady
considers herself to have more “face” to lose even than the Administration if she can’t fess us to the “changing realities” of this Bemghazi affair.

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